Oracle Linux 6 : cups (ELSA-2011-1635)

high Nessus Plugin ID 181018

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2011-1635 advisory.

[1.4.2-44]
- Init script should source /etc/sysconfig/cups (bug #744791)

[1.4.2-43]
- The scheduler might leave old job data files in the spool directory (STR #3795, STR #3880, bug #735505).

[1.4.2-42]
- A further fix for imageto* filters crashing with bad GIF files (STR #3914, bug #714118).

[1.4.2-41]
- The imageto* filters could crash with bad GIF files (STR #3867, bug #714118).

[1.4.2-40]
- Map ASCII to ISO-8859-1 in the transcoding code (STR #3832, bug #681836).
- Check for empty values for some configuration directives (STR #3861, bug #706673).
- The network backends no longer try to collect SNMP supply and status information for raw queues (STR #3809, bug #709896).
- Handle EAI_NONAME when resolving hostnames (bug #712430).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 181018

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2011-1635.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Oracle Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 9/7/2023

Updated: 4/29/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Temporal Score: 3.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-2896

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:cups-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:cups-php, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:cups-libs, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:cups-lpd, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:cups, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:6

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/OracleLinux

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/14/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/15/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-2896

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